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2011
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Formalizing Functional Flow Block Diagrams Using Process Algebra and Metamodels
Abstract—Functional flow block diagrams (FFBDs) are a traditional tool of systems engineering and remain popular in some systems engineering domains. However, their lack of form...
Allan I. McInnes, Brandon K. Eames, Russell J. Gro...
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2011
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Circular Blurred Shape Model for Multiclass Symbol Recognition
—In this paper, we propose a circular blurred shape model descriptor to deal with the problem of symbol detection and classification as a particular case of object recognition. ...
Sergio Escalera, Alicia Fornés, Oriol Pujol...
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2011
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Incremental Social Learning in Particle Swarms
Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, Thomas Stützle, ...
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2011
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Particle Swarm Optimization in Wireless-Sensor Networks: A Brief Survey
—Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are networks of autonomous nodes used for monitoring an environment. Developers of WSNs face challenges that arise from communication link failur...
Raghavendra V. Kulkarni, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy
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2011
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Morphogenetic Robotics: An Emerging New Field in Developmental Robotics
—Developmental robotics is also known as epigenetic robotics. We propose in this paper that there is one substantial difference between developmental robotics and epigenetic robo...
Yaochu Jin, Yan Meng
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2011
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Modeling Competition in the Telecommunications Market Based on Concepts of Population Biology
—Based on concepts of ecology modeling and specifi-4 cally on population biology, a methodology for describing a high-5 technology market’s dynamics is developed and presented...
Christos Michalakelis, Thomas Sphicopoulos, Dimitr...
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2011
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Cross-Entropy Optimization of Control Policies With Adaptive Basis Functions
—This paper introduces an algorithm for direct search of control policies in continuous-state discrete-action Markov decision processes. The algorithm looks for the best closed-l...
Lucian Busoniu, Damien Ernst, Bart De Schutter, Ro...
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2011
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Markov Models for Biogeography-Based Optimization
—Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is a4 population-based evolutionary algorithm that is based on the5 mathematics of biogeography. Biogeography is the science and6 study of ...
Dan Simon, Mehmet Ergezer, Dawei Du, Richard Allen...
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2011
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Privacy-Preserving Outlier Detection Through Random Nonlinear Data Distortion
— Consider a scenario in which the data owner has some private/sensitive data and wants a data miner to access it for studying important patterns without revealing the sensitive ...
Kanishka Bhaduri, Mark D. Stefanski, Ashok N. Sriv...
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2011
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Fault Diagnosis in Discrete-Event Systems: Incomplete Models and Learning
— Most state-based approaches to fault diagnosis of discrete-event systems require a complete and accurate model of the system to be diagnosed. In this paper, we address the prob...
Raymond H. Kwong, David L. Yonge-Mallo